Buying and selling support thread?!

[GinIsIn]

Hi, I know there's a sellers' thread, and a buyers' thread, but I am knee deep in trying to do both at the same time and starting to feel like my head might explode and not sure which thread to visit to beg for someone to send Anyone else?!

puggy I'd just go for it. I think buying a house is a bit like Monopoly money for overall cost. As long as you can afford repayments do it

I think you're right. 10k is neither here nor there long term. The bank will lend us double what we actually need.

Sounds good then Puggy, £50 is nothing in the scheme of things and all sounds very affordable.

I hope she accepts tomorrow then. Watch this space!

Eek good luck!

I've offered. To be honest, if she won't sell it at the price I've offered, she really doesn't want to sell at all.

Bloody hell. How long can it take to accept the offer you asked for? I'm so impatient!

Hope you hear soon, puggy

Just back from the Edwardian house

It's great. Need to go back next week with the builder.

Slightly worrying fly though, the agent said he thinks it's undervalued

Sounds good Gobbolin. Strange for the EA to says it's under valued! Might be a clever ploy to make it seem like a bargain and get a bidding war going on.

We got the bungalow!

Yay Puggy. Excellent news!

Yeay puggy so happy for you

gobbolino I'd assume the ea valued it so ignore him!

1 of our 2 viewings today cancelled so not hopeful. Likely our house we've had offer accepted on will go back on the market

Bamboo it's so disappointing when that happens. Do you think today's viewer may be interested?

Excellent Puggy.
Good luck to those with viewings this weekend. We have 2 later, really hope 1 of them want it

Oh good puggy.

Gobbolino they just want more money, probably the seller wants it shifted and the EA disagrees.

We had so many viewings, one a week so endless cleaning for over two months, and In the end only one offer. But we want to move NOW and you only need one to buy it. Yes we may be paying over the odds for the house
since the Brexit happened but as long as we can afford the mortgage, plus we can get a fixed rate so wil know how much it is going to cost.

Finally have another viewing booked. It's Tuesday so means I can spend tomorrow putting the house back to show home standards. What a fun way to spend my last day of maternity leave!
Fingers crossed for all this weeks viewings.

So I've spent all morning cleaning the house and both viewers have cancelled. I asked EA to phone and confirm and 1 has found somewhere and the other wants to rearrange. So annoyed.

I called ea who sounded positive so will wait for Monday but they said that last weekend too

I agree the cleaning is the worst! Last time we just had an open day so only did it once. So much better. Stupid Brexit

I don't want to clean up ever again!

So annoying sweet pea. Same happened to us with two viewings that were cancelled. Never did find out why. Clearly these people have never sold houses and have no idea what a pain it is to tidy up all the time.

Congratulations Puggy!

Well after a week and 455 views on zoopla (not sure if that's good or bad?) we had one viewing. Loved the house but want a garden (we have next to nothing garden wise) ... They have said they will make an offer if we manage to negotiate on the land behind us (belongs to a commercial property what has a large garden it's never used but refused to sell to me), not really want I was hoping for.

I think we will reduce price Wednesday and see if that brings better interest. Argh ... Frustrating!

Urggh sweet and herschel

Congrats puggy!

Can I pick everyone's brains? Obviously we like the house we saw today but it needs work. We want to take the builder along to give us a quite. However - we have 3 kids, age 3 and under and viewings are a total ballache. I cannot be arsed dragging us all there plus builder next Saturday unless there could be negotiation on price - total waste of time

So thought I would call agent and just be frank. Don't want to discuss numbers at the moment but if the vendors only wasn't the asking price, then we won't be offering that and I don't want to waste anyone's time. Thoughts? Seems sensible to me but I'm so bloody fed up, I might be missing something!

gobbolino I doubt they'd tell you I'm afraid. Could you not just put in a low offer to take into account what you expect works to cost (worst case). Then if they decline you can say you're looking to do work and would need a builder quote to increase and see what they say?

I could bamboo - but it will mean dragging us all there plus builder which could be a pointless waste of time

I thought they might be able to tell me - in the interests of expediency - if we could negotiate it not. I do not want to talk figures at the moment. Just understand if there is room for manoeuvre before the builder does a quote.

Maybe I'm thinking about this all wrong but I couldn't be arsed tidying up and vacating the house for someone who had no intention of paying the figure I want for my house. I'd rather just cut it off at the pass.

Urgghh - maybe i'll just leave it as it all seems like such hard work at the moment. I'll just feedback that I think it's over-priced and it's too much hassle to get us all back there plus builder and architect to enter into pointless negotiations.

Just say you're interested but not at that price and leave it at that.